Re: What's the Big Deal with Firefox?
Ron Hunter <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.windows |
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| Organization | Another Netscape Collabra Server User |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Neil wrote: > Ron Hunter wrote: > >> Howard Brazee wrote: >> >>> On 13-Jan-2005, Andrew DeFaria <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I've heard of machines at work running Unix that have been up >>>> continually for some 5+ years. >>>> >>>> Can your Mac do that? >>> >>> >>> I don't know if he is Mac can do that (whatever that means). >>> >>> But I know of OS/2 machines that did that. >>> >>> I keep my Windows XP machines on until I have to reboot them because >>> things stop working correctly, which happens every couple of weeks or >>> so. I don't recall ever having to do that when I was using OS/2. >> >> >> I use my WinXP machine a LOT, doing various things, often with beta >> (or alpha) software and I reboot only when an install or update >> requires it. That is usually about once a week, but may happen >> several times in a day, or not for several weeks. In the time I have >> had WinXP, I have had maybe two reboots due to unspecified causes. >> WinXP is VASTLY more stable than Win9X based versions. > > > Plus it doesn't have that silly crash after 2^32 milliseconds bug. (FYI > that's 49 days 17 hours 2 minutes and 47.296 seconds) > Because of the way I use my computer, and the frequency of security flaw patches from MS, it is unlikely my computer will ever be up the long without a reboot.